Data Scientist, Transparency & Observability - Trust and Safety

TikTok

Locations
San Jose, United States of America · New York, United States of America
Salary range
USD $179,200 – $353,600 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Data & Analytics
Posted
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $220k to $310k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 5+ years · posts $179k to $354k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.

Data science work on Trust & Safety measurement for a large short-video platform, building metrics and monitoring that show how enforcement systems perform across products and content types. The Transparency & Observability team supports internal decisions, external transparency reporting, and the quality and reliability of T&S data.

What you'd do

  • Design metrics that measure T&S enforcement across different products and content types.
  • Build dashboards and monitoring solutions that surface actionable insights into platform safety.
  • Set up automated anomaly detection and alerts so data or operational problems surface early.
  • Investigate data issues, find root causes, and improve data quality processes.
  • Partner with engineering to strengthen T&S data reliability and governance.
  • Explore AI-powered approaches to monitoring model performance and their effect on platform safety.

What it asks for

  • Five or more years in data science, analytics, data engineering, or an adjacent quantitative field.
  • Strong SQL and experience with large-scale data platforms such as Hive or Spark.
  • Proficiency in Python or R.
  • Experience designing metrics and building dashboards or reporting tools.
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field such as statistics, computer science, math, engineering, or economics.

Terms in this role

Transparency report.
A published account of how a service enforced its rules over a period: removals, appeals, government requests. The DSA requires them in the EU.

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About TikTok

The employer

About TikTok

Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016

Company profile

Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.

Moderation, reported

TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.

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